Kolbe & Fanning Sale

On November 22, Kolbe & Fanning Booksellers will hold its 175th auction. With over 500 lots, the sale includes U.S. numismatic material from John Hoskins’s library, as well as Igor Shneyderov’s library on Russian numismatics. 

Highlights include:

• A priced and named copy of the 1950 Christie’s catalog of selections from Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich’s collection of Russian coins and medals.
• An original letter from Princess Xenia of Russia to Edward Gans discussing the collection of her father, Grand Duke Mikhailovich.

• A complete original set of the Imperial Russian Archaeological Society’s Zapiski with works by Markov, Tolstoi, Kaufman, Ilyin, Demmeni, and others.
• S.H. Chapman’s 1921 catalog of the Dr. J.M. Henderson collection, one of eight known copies with the four photographic plates of half cents and large cents.
• Carl Würtzbach’s copy of the very scarce 1878 printing of the first edition of Sylvester Crosby’s The Early Coins of America.
• A bound volume of eight American auction catalogs of the 1880s, six of which feature photographically printed plates from the library of Carl Würtzbach. 

The auction will be held at 12 p.m. ET. For more information and to browse the offerings, visit Kolbe & Fanning’s website.